Wages Quotes

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. (Terry Pratchett)
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. View quote
Henry Ford
I do not pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. View quote
Robert Bosch
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. View quote
Paula Poundstone
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. View quote
Martin Luther
American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India. View quote
Andy Stern
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
The wages of pedantry is pain. View quote
Carroll O'Connor
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor. (Elton Gallegly)
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way. View quote
Ayn Rand
If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches! View quote
Thomas Malthus
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. View quote
David Ricardo
But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits. View quote
David Ricardo
The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others. View quote
Robert Owen
The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways:1st - When they are neglected in infancy2nd - When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them.3rd - When they are paid low wages for their labour. View quote
Robert Owen
Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks. View quote
Alan Sillitoe
Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people. View quote
Donald Trump
If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them. (Joan Robinson)
We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security. View quote
Paul Keating
Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages of war. View quote
Jackson C. Frank
A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans. View quote
Michael Lewis (author)
More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining notonly in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement. View quote
Herbert Hoover